O Japão imperialista: “patterns of race war” em uma análise cultural sobre a China e a Coreia de 1894 a 1945

Abstract

This article discusses the presence of racism during the history of the Japanese Empire, focused on two main countries, China and Korea, as well as the relevance of art in the process of characterizing this racism, especially since the First Sino-Japanese War started in 1894. The objective is to bring an analysis from another perspective of the Pacific War, focusing on the lens of racism and xenophobia seen through art. To achieve this, the methodology adopted was a bibliographical review, citing mainly the work of Dower (1986), who even names this article with the expression ‘patterns of race war’, but also other main authors such as Gruhl (2007), Mitter (2013), Sakurai (2007) and Nam (2018) who help describe the process of Japanese domination. This description was made through a historical contextualization of Japan's rise as an imperialist power - then, some analyzes were carried out on its relations with two of the nations it dominated, with a focus not only on military domination, but also cultural and, in especially, the racist and xenophobic interactions between these actors. Finally, the role of the arts was established not only in representation, but also in the dissemination of these prejudices; especially given its use in the context of the Pacific War.